Yuan Style Introduction - Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting 17

Author: Liu Yazhang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Landscape painting is a unique product of Chinese civilization. For over a thousand years, it has served as a major category of Chinese painting and a concentrated embodiment of its artistic achievements, as well as an important way for the Chinese people to observe nature, interpret the world, and carry its conceptual significance. With distinct cultural characteristics and rich expressive forms, it has participated in the construction of the artistic spirit and humanistic atmosphere of the Chinese nation. Since the 20th century, with the profound changes in society, the cultural penetration of landscape painting has weakened to some extent, but it continues to provide and nourish the values and forms that later generations draw upon. It still deeply influences the contemporary era through its dual effects—acting on both the practical artistic context and the cognitive structure of individuals. Comprehensive Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting organizes this vibrant and diverse history of landscape painting in an illustrated and systematic manner. What it reveals is not only the process of the emergence and development of landscape painting, nor just the trajectories of artists and artistic works associated with it, but also the cultural soil on which it thrives, as well as the evolving and subtle relationships between generations who need landscape painting and the painting itself. For ease of reading and use, the entire work is organized along the timeline of landscape painting development as the vertical axis and the fluctuations of value forms as the horizontal axis, divided into thirty-four volumes. Each volume stands as an independent chapter while interconnecting and echoing one another. This book, The Divergence of Court Style, is the seventeenth volume, primarily exploring the court-style landscape painting of the Ming Dynasty, represented by Tang Yin and Qiu Ying.